Membranous glomerulonephritis associated with inflammatory demyelinating peripheral neuropathies. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A 55-year-old man with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy developed the nephrotic syndrome. Renal biopsy showed stage I membranous glomerulonephritis. Review of the literature revealed the association of these two rare syndromes, considered to be due to immunologic dysfunction, in two other cases, as well as several cases of the acute form of demyelinating peripheral polyradiculoneuropathy. The nephrotic syndrome appears to be persistent in the chronic form of the peripheral neuropathy but reversible in its acute form following immunosuppressive therapy. The possibility of a common immunopathogenesis in the association of membranous glomerulonephritis and inflammatory demyelinating peripheral neuropathies deserves further scrutiny.

publication date

  • February 1, 1996

Research

keywords

  • Demyelinating Diseases
  • Glomerulonephritis, Membranous
  • Polyradiculoneuropathy

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0030041902

PubMed ID

  • 8659507

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 27

issue

  • 2